PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU - Sari, Salem
TI - The State and Society Partnership
AID - 10.1525/caa.2018.000009
DP - 2018 Mar 01
TA - Contemporary Arab Affairs
PG - 135--162
VI - 11
IP - 1-2
4099 - http://caa.ucpress.edu/content/11/1-2/135.short
4100 - http://caa.ucpress.edu/content/11/1-2/135.full
AB - This study attempts to reveal the futility of perceptions of the state as self-established and self-sufficient. It argues that the state can only function if it is communicated and not separated. The study criticizes social, classical, and modern theories, searching for the contents, contexts, and mechanisms of the main concepts that continue to constitute the major problems to the theory of political partnership. The focus is on the theory of Habermas and his concepts of democracy, communicative action, and public space, which can be built today into an in-depth theory of sociopolitical partnership in a modern civil state.